Parenting of mothers with a serious mental illness: Differential effects of diagnosis, clinical history, and other mental health variables

Social Work Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 225-240

  Mowbray, Carol ^a   Oyserman, Daphna ^b   Bybee, Deborah ^b   MacFarlane, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Mental illness; Mothers; Parenting; Symptomatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039484744     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/26.4.225     Document Type: Article

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